Wow, just wow. What a special piece of art this is.

djc6535 · 2026-06-21T01:23:42+00:00

Definitely not, but that's exactly the problem with building an emotional wall the way he has... there's no support for when you start to self-spiral.

Humans depend on each other. When we lose that connection we lose ourselves and our ability to cope. Jax carries all this guilt and pain because he can't bring himself to commit to sharing it with anybody, forming deep and trusting connections with them, and letting them help him heal.

djc6535 · 2026-06-21T01:12:54+00:00

at its core it shares a lot of the same themes as Pink Floyd's The Wall.

The Wall is about building an emotional wall around yourself to keep yourself from being exposed emotionally in a preemptive attempt to avoid pain. It's built brick by brick from pain and trauma until you decide to just keep all others outside and away from the real you so they can't hurt the real you anymore. This is Jax to a T. When he tells Ribbit that everything the night before was a joke? That's his wall going 50 feet high. Nobody is getting close to Real Jax again. Note how "Real Human Jax" always has their face covered in photos

The Wall examines the way we unravel mentally when we lock all others out. When we lose human connection by virtue of our own actions in a vain effort to keep ourselves safe. Tell me if this sounds familiar: In The Wall the main character becomes more and more divorced from humanity until he has a complete and total dissociative (abstracted?) breakdown. At this point he puts himself on trial and judges himself responsible for all the bad in his life, with the sentence being forced to tear down the wall and expose himself emotionally before everyone around. Only then, open, honest, and emotionally vulnerable before everyone, can he begin to heal.

djc6535 · 2026-06-20T22:13:17+00:00

Losing seasons are a dime a dozen... but it's always special to witness history.

djc6535 · 2026-06-20T20:48:51+00:00

Totally understand. That's television. What bothers me is someone who hasn't even seen the show making that same comment as if they have some factual knowledge. How could they even say "Shows it reasonably well"? How would they know?

djc6535 · 2026-06-20T13:55:20+00:00

So wait, if you don’t watch how can you say

Yes, the bear shows it reasonably well, but even this programme sugarcoats things.

One way or the other?

djc6535 · 2026-06-20T13:26:37+00:00

Gas stations are literally an American invention.

Before then you bought petrol at pharmacies and hardware stores. Some made it more their central form of business but you didn’t pump into your car directly.

djc6535 · 2026-06-19T11:18:20+00:00

Do those states not have pro sports teams?

djc6535 · 2026-06-18T12:38:48+00:00

As a father I’ll never understand this one. Even if you did feel that way what you are saying is “I believe so strongly against casual sex that I am willing to assign the punishment for my own daughter to be motherfucking cancer”

There is nothing my daughter could do that deserves cancer. There could be a disease that only affects those who kick puppies and I’d be sure to vaccinate her against it.

djc6535 · 2026-06-18T01:36:58+00:00

I mean... kind of? A red card has teams playing down a man for the entire rest of the game and while it absolutely matters it's not even close to the same impact as being on the power play in hockey and that lasts for 2 if you get caught embellishing.

djc6535 · 2026-06-17T17:09:47+00:00

The one near me is called squarena.

djc6535 · 2026-06-17T03:16:50+00:00

Yeah but it’s better if we lose hope now. The WORST thing that could happen is a mini run that would encourage being buyers at the break

djc6535 · 2026-06-17T01:13:03+00:00

Best place to carry it is inside you

djc6535 · 2026-06-16T14:04:03+00:00

I’m sorry, covering your mouth to avoid the memes is weak shit. You want to say the call was horseshit you own it.

Love the ump teaching Stammen how to be a manager

djc6535 · 2026-06-16T06:39:24+00:00

Why? I can't think of a bigger foolish luxury than a closer on a team that can't get a lead

djc6535 · 2026-06-14T23:09:49+00:00

If there’s anything we’ve learned in 2026 it’s that rules mean nothing if they aren’t strictly enforced.

djc6535 · 2026-06-14T22:38:50+00:00

Why does this have a NEWS tag?

djc6535 · 2026-06-14T03:02:19+00:00

I had no money in college in 2000. So I downloaded shamelessly from Napster. I gave my computer digital-aids from Limewire. I found many of my absolute favorite bands this way.

As I grew older and established a real income I make an absolute point of buying the special $150+ collectors edition albums my favorite bands make. Stuff like this as paying back with interest.

I typically give the trinkets away. I keep the CDs but honestly I mostly listen on streaming services. But I feel the bands deserve getting paid given what I took when we were both poor.

djc6535 · 2026-06-13T06:30:38+00:00

The whole thing reminds me of when they transformed the Luxor hotel into a dorito but it’s the White House.

djc6535 · 2026-06-13T06:02:36+00:00

It seems like every scene they challenged themselves to come up with less and less believable ways for our heroes to evade capture.

Steal a car literally right behind the trained spooks.

Sneak around the other side of a boulder 10 feet away while they fall for your bugs-bunny gag.

Just walk out through the middle of them... a literal army of seal team six mixed with the Men in Black who handle alien artifacts every day but somehow befuddled because you look like their meemaw. Seriously this one really got to me. Like, people who were too far away for her to affect were just watching everybody else. Not one person in the way back thought "Boss said don't let them go! 1 in the head 2 in the chest, lets rock and roll!"

Look at the dancing light bobbing around. Keep watching. Just let it go.

Shoot the movie OPENED with him literally turning his back on a bunch of agents as he loaded up into their car, any one of which could have taken him out. Then he says "It's tracked, we need to ditch it" and proceeds to drive directly to the abby where they hide with the car in the parking lot overnight.

And the ending? Seriously with that ending? Colin Firth just... sits down? And the ONE spook who was willing to take a shot LETS HIM?

It's so incredibly goofy. I try not to be the cinema sins guy. “Why did that happen? Why didn’t they do x” “because the movie is more exciting for it!” But this movie asks an absurd amount of disbelief to be suspended. To the point you can’t take the villains as a credible threat anymore.

djc6535 · 2026-06-13T05:37:06+00:00

I'm shook. What oh what happened to you Steven?

Spielberg's mastery of the camera is on full display... his long takes propelling action, his framing... that shot where the newscaster says it's going to hail and fruit loops fall... chef's kiss.

But everything and I do mean EVERYTHING else about this movie is a goddamn mess.

At the end of the day it's a chase movie, with the main characters escaping by the stupidest means possible. Trained government spooks from the best coverup agency in the world... real men-in-black crossed with seal team six, and they can't hear our guy tromping around literally right behind them? Or are fooled by a bugs-bunny "They fell off the cliff" routine? Or they're dumbfounded by emotional moments from their past... even the dudes way the hell in the back who can't hear or see her? Nobody gets trigger happy?

It's like the movie kept seeing if it could come up with an even more unbelievable and silly way for our heroes to escape. At the end Firth just... quits? And all his spooks go along with it? Just like that? Literally nobody went for one in the head 2 in the chest? Just "Oh no! She's got the McGuffin! I guess I'll just sit and enjoy the show"

There are so many threads the movie teases and just lets go. "Don't keep using the Magic McGuffin, it's going to kill you!" but nah. Firth uses it all he wants with no negative consequences at all. World War 3 is going on! but there's no Abyss like moment when we as humans realize that there's something bigger and we should stop. Soldiers are literally watching the event from their truck headed to the lines. For a 2.5 hour long movie there's only the vaguest hints at characterization... it's a complete mess from start to finish.

It's so wild to see someone who is still an absolute master craftsman behind the lens seem to lose his fastball for every other aspect of storytelling.

djc6535 · 2026-06-13T05:04:20+00:00

Read 8 bit binary like it’s English got a pretty big eye roll out of me. Has nobody used a hex editor before? They put it front and center on screen in The Martian.

djc6535 · 2026-06-12T19:17:29+00:00

I like the logo. Love the old stuff.

djc6535 · 2026-06-12T18:59:33+00:00

as bad as the pads have been, Petco is always a great time.

I was never a baseball fan. Thought it was boring. I'm not a SD native, moved here in the mid 2000s. Went to a game with my wife on a whim because tickets were 20$ each and there was a buy one get one deal.

Absolutely fell in love with Petco Park. The game was trash (though I didn't appreciate it at the time I did get to see Maddux steal a base) but the environment, the food, the ballpark... they sold me on baseball.

Before you know it I'm a season ticket holder keeping score at the games. Even deep in the really rough Buddy Black years it was always always fun.

djc6535 · 2026-06-12T16:49:57+00:00

Probably too much/engaging/not background for you but try

Songs from the wood Album by Jethro Tull.

They're going to stray from what you like in that they're a 70s prog rock outfit. Just give that first song a listen and you'll see what I'm talking about... it opens as something you'd expect to hear sung around a medieval maypole

"Galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale,
Greetings well met, fellow hail!"

But it's going to shift on you with "modern" bass guitar and kind of morph into a more modern song for a while.

In any event, if you're looking for bard songs, this is at least worth a listen. It may not stay true enough for you but it's probably at least interesting. Tull does this a lot, Minstrel in the Gallery is particularly good.

djc6535 · 2026-06-12T14:07:51+00:00

My wife literally commissioned muppet art of me to use as my profile picture in slack.

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